Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also hippish, hypped) miserable, unhappy, in low spirits.

1710		J. Gay Wine in Works (1811) 348: By cares depress’d, in pensive hippish mood [F&H].
1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn) n.p.: Hyp. [...] He is hypped; he has got the blue devils.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1796].
1821		‘An Amateur’ Real Life in London I 64–5: You are a merry and stylish fellow [...] we should have been hipp’d without you.
1830		J.B. Buckstone Wreck Ashore I ii: ’Sdeath! I feel hipp’d and miserable to-day.
1845		Disraeli Sybil Bk III 18: One too often drives away from a country-house, rather hipped.
1852		N.Y. Pick (NY) 21 Feb. n.p.: If the reader is ever subject to be ‘hipped’ [...] troubled with [...] the ‘blues’.
1865		Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1994) 543: You are a little hipped, dear fellow [...] You have been too sedentary. Come and enjoy the pleasures of the chase.
1891		in Punch 25 Apr. 204: GRANDOLPH seems hipped [...] It’s the beard. Never been the same man since he grew it.
1896		W.C. Gore Student Sl. in Cohen (1997) 20: hipped. a. [Prob. from hip or hyp, abbr. of hypochondria.] In unfortunate circumstances.
1902		A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel 226: He’s tried to commit suicide – he’s so hipped.
1920		Capt. Billy’s Whiz Bang Oct. 11: The dance is not sad or hippish but one of joy.

2. angry, irritated.

1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict. 154: HIPPED, piqued, offended, crossed, &c.
1879		Man about Town 11 Sept. 4/2: Bad temper [...] remorse, even despair are quite compatible with the glories of the scene; but no one is ‘hipped’—not even the haw-haws.
1905		E. Wallace Four Just Men 180: When Poiccart disappeared [...] Billy was hipped. He realized in a flash that his captive had gone to whither he could not follow.
1929		(con. 1916) F. Manning Her Privates We (1986) 84: When old Tomlinson [...] told me to go back to my company, I felt a bit hipped by it.
1947		N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 104: If I were you [...] I think I should feel a bit hipped about the money too.
1953		T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 173: Pretty hipped, eh?

3. (US campus) impoverished.

1896		W.C. Gore Student Sl. in Cohen (1997) 3: hipped a. 1. Without funds.
1904		Number 1500 Life In Sing Sing 249: Hipped. indigent.
1924		G. Henderson Keys to Crookdom 407: Hipped. Without funds, strapped, broke.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).

4. (US) defeated, done for.

1904		Number 1500 Life In Sing Sing 249: Hipped. At a disadvantage; stranded.
1936		(con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 368: That has put me back years, but with a bit of income I won’t be so hipped as if I had to cringe for a job.